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DFS servers no longer replicating

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For some reason my two file servers, both running Windows Storage Server 2008 Standard SP2, have stopped replicating the folders I have setup in single DFS name space. This has been working fine for more than a year and just suddenly stopped. When
I try to check on the backlog of the replication with the following command:

Please verify that "Authenticated Users" is set with the default READ permission on:

- The computer object in AD
- The DFSR-LocalSettings object under the computer
- The msdfsr-subscriber object under the localsettings object
- The msdfsr-subscription object under the subscriber object

(and that there are no denies set for groups that the servers could be a member of).

Once permissions are correct, use DFSRDIAG POLLAD to pick up the changes.

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I was able to verify that Authenticated Users is set for Read permissions on the computer object in AD, But I do not know where to find the other settings. Can you please provude assistance in locating these objects? Thank you.

OK, I used ADSI Edit to locate the above mentioned objects and verifie that the Authenticated Users group has read permissions for each of them. My DFS has been working for more than a year and just suddenly stopped. If this was a permissions issue, I'd
think it would never have worked.

We were having this issue. The cause was that DFS replication has automatically been suspended due to a dirty shutdown of the server (which had been forced down due to another symptom unrelated to DFS). We restarted replication using this command:

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